re: #87 ArmyWife

I know not everyone in NO stood around crying about President Bush not cleaning up their homes quickly enough. One of my best friends in the world lives in NO. But there were some large pockets who waited for gov’t to take care of everything - but they did that before Katrina struck, so it wasn’t a new trick.

There are people scattered all across this country who make their lives from birth to death waiting and living on the government (our tax money) dole.
I have not taken a penny of government assistance, not even a jug of bottled water, during this last Ike storm and I have lost my home in Galveston. I am still waiting all these many months, for the insurance companies, three separate policies by the way, to decide whether the house was taken by water or by wind before I can do anything. I have been told that if I had just applied for FEMA assistance, I would have gotten loan money and would be rebuilding already….
Case in point, Perhaps, we make it too easy for people to become dependent on the government.
This makes me sick. I want to take care of myself.